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Because Aaron Neville has publicly credited St. Jude with saving him from heroin addiction, chronic depression and ''slavery-style contracts,'' he has become a conduit for others in deep despair. He is not a preacher or a faith healer. He does not, in fact, pretend to be anything more than a singer.

Aaron Neville has been described by critics as possessing one of the most splendid falsetto-tinged tenors in pop music. The singer, who is deeply religious, puts it another way: "I describe it as God in me touching God in the person that hears it; at least that's what it feels like to me."

At the age of 50, Aaron Neville still possesses the voice of an angelic child whose purity of faith transcends the world's darker realities. What is even more distinctive is the complexity of the delicate, half-yodeled melismas that Mr. Neville interpolates into many of his songs.

In a tremulous falsetto, with phrases that ripple and float, Aaron Neville sings of perfect romance and intricate pain. He's a member of the Neville Brothers band, for whom he delivers change-of-pace ballads and fills out harmonies, but on Tuesday night at the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights, he revealed his cabaret-singer side.

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Aaron Neville Blue Note Aaron Neville encased himself in a black suit on Friday night, so you couldn't see much of his normally conspicuous body art: his bracelets, his tattoos, his muscles. Aside from the sword inked onto his left cheek, there...

January 14, 2004, Wednesday

With huge biceps and a dagger tattoo on his cheek, the singer Aaron Neville attracts stares from bystanders as he enters Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel/Shrine of St. Jude on North Rampart Street here. This is the edge of the French Quarter, near the...

THEY have worn white ''mustaches'' and sung the praises of milk, figuratively speaking, in highly recognizable broadcast and print ads that began running in the 1990's. But until now, celebrity endorsers had never actually broken into song about it. ...

"If anyone had told me when I was 17 years old that not only would Little Richard be singing one of my songs, but that I would be walking him through it and improvising switches on the melody with him, I would not have believed it," JEFF MOSS said...

December 10, 1993, Friday

Neville on 'Tour' Aaron Neville has been described by critics as possessing one of the most splendid falsetto-tinged tenors in pop music. The singer, who is deeply religious, puts it another way: "I describe it as God in me touching God in the...